Letters

Your August 26th issue of Kaleidoscope featured a nice article about the Los Alamos Piano Quartet’s upcoming Brown Bag Concert.
However, the headline on the Kaleidoscope cover incorrectly identified the presenter of this concert as the Los Alamos Concert Association.
The presenter is actually the Los Alamos Arts Council as noted correctly in the article.
This community is fortunate to have a host of musical ensembles and presenters providing a rich assortment of local entertainment and performing opportunities.

For anyone in town who hasn’t heard yet, there’s been a big project going on at Bandelier, and it just finished up.
After the visitor center being closed for almost a year for updating, it’s open now, just waiting for our neighbors in town to come and see.
The new movie is beautiful, high def, in a totally new theater with a huge screen and great sound.
The bookstore has a comfortable new space, no longer crowded into the lobby.

After reading the recent article in the Monitor regarding the Los Alamos Fire Department receiving another accreditation, I am embarrassed and ashamed of the Los Alamos County Council members, with the exception of Vincent Chiravalle, who at least recommended further review.
Remaining council members, you certainly are not representing me in your vote not to support the recommendations on the fact-finders report in consideration of fair wage compensation.

Tom Udall, a courageous politician, progressive thinker, and courteous man, deserves to be the next New Mexico Senator.

I sense that many members of this community are still reluctant to vote for Tom Udall simply because he did not oppose a particular House Bill that recommended budget cuts to the nuclear weapons laboratories. I understand that people worried about the ramifications of the proposed budget cut to the Laboratory and the potential negative impact to Los Alamos and the surrounding communities in northern New Mexico.

KOB-TV Channel 4 excluded independent candidate Carol Miller from its 3rd Congressional District debate October 25, giving the fraudulent impression that only a Democrat and a Republican are seeking this office. In my view this action is an illegal limitation of the public’s right to be informed of and access all certified candidates. This is not Primary season; Miller is on the November ballot. What do FCC-licensed KOB and the two major parties have to say about this misrepresentation?

In my Council Corner that appeared Tuesday night the version that I thought I sent was correct, but the word processor editor tool apparently added changes we had made prior to the final version, but didn’t erase the final deletions.